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Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks
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:shocked: :shocked:How you spell...beligerant? :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:


Chris Floyd: 'Into the dark: The Pentagon plan to provoke terrorist attacks'
Posted on Friday, November 01 @ 08:46:39 EST
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By Chris Floyd

"This age: layers of lime harden in the sick son's blood...
There's nowhere to run from the tyrant-epoch...
Who else will you kill? Who else glorify?
What other lies will you invent?"
— Osip Mandelshtam, "1 January 1924"

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?

Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.



This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. There -- in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon -- came the revelation of Rumsfeld's plan to create "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" that will "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception."

According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization -- the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)" -- will carry out secret missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces.

In other words -- and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan -- the United States government is planning to use "cover and deception" and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let's say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people -- your family, your friends, your lovers, you -- in order to further their geopolitical ambitions.

For P2OG is not designed solely to flush out terrorists and bring them to justice -- a laudable goal in itself, although the Rumsfeld way of combating terrorism by causing it is pure moral lunacy. (Or should we use the Regime's own preferred terminology and just call it "evil"?) No, it seems the Pee-Twos have bigger fish to fry. Once they have sparked terrorists into action -- by killing their family members? luring them with loot? fueling them with drugs? plying them with jihad propaganda? messing with their mamas? or with agents provocateurs, perhaps, who infiltrate groups then plan and direct the attacks themselves? -- they can then take measures against the "states/sub-state actors accountable" for "harboring" the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: "Their sovereignty will be at risk."

The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the Empire's burgeoning portfolio. Just find a nest of violent malcontents, stir 'em with a stick, and presto: instant "justification" for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you might desire. And what if the territory you fancy doesn't actually harbor any convenient marauders to use for fun and profit? Well, surely a God-like "super-Intelligence Support Activity" is capable of creation ex nihilo, yes?

The Rumsfeld-Bush plan to employ murder and terrorism for political, financial and ideological gain does have historical roots (besides al Qaeda, the Stern Gang, the SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, Eta, Hamas, Shining Path and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and freedom). We refer of course to Operations Northwoods, oft mentioned in these pages: the plan that America's top military brass presented to President John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign -- complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans -- to provide "justification" for an invasion of Cuba, the Mafia/Corporate fiefdom which had recently been lost to Castro.

Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain him -- and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic, elitist clique.

There is prestuplyeniye here, transgression, a stepping-over -- deliberately, with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will -- of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly symbiosis with rage-maddened killers, God-crazed ranters and those supreme "sub-state actors," the mafias, Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of black ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder and terror -- wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us, of all that we've won from the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we've raised above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling in the mud of our monkey brains.

It's not a fight for freedom; it's a retreat into darkness.

And the day will be a long time coming.

A shorter version of this piece originally appeared in The Moscow Times:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/
2002/11/01/120.html

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: carbonhoots]
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:frown:


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: carbonhoots]
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Allow me to paraphrase P.T. Barnum....
There's a sucker born every minute.

Those who write this stuff, and those who believe it and post it.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Are you going to make any effort to refute what's being said, or are you just going to throw insults around as usual?


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Phluck]
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Are you going to make any effort to refute what's being said, or are you just going to throw insults around as usual?

There's more chance of the sky falling in than luvdem making a post on-topic. The really funny thing is he'll have his closed minded mates around saying what wonderful points he makes soon  :grin:

The truth is a threat to these people. Once you know that you can understand them a little. Not that it makes them any less boring!   


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Phluck]
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I made all the response that this post was worthy of.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Does it seem that farfetched?  I don't know about this one, but I wouldn't put it past them.

Wasn't there a declassified CIA document from the 60's that said they were considering comiting an act of terrorism and then blaming Fidel Castro, in order to justify invading Cuba?

I don't know much more about it except what I've heard.  This kind of fits with that.

America, to an outside observer seems...strange and scary.  The sheer size of the military, the nuclear capabilities, all of it.

Maybe it all seems to make sense to those on the inside of USA, but us on the outside wonder what would happen if someone like Hitler rose to the top there.  The potential for destruction keeps a lot of people a bit nervous.  So IF this business about Rumsfeld is untrue, at least you can understand why people's minds might be going in these paranoid directions.
:ooo: :mad: :cool: :smile: :frown: :blush: :crazy: :laugh: :shocked: : :smirk: :confused: :grin: :wink: :tongue: 


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Yeah, that's what you always say. Never seem to back it up with anything though.


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Phluck]
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Yeah, that's what you always say. Never seem to back it up with anything though.

Just wait. Mr mushrooms or one of the other far right wingers will post soon and say he has made some "startlingly wise and intelligent points".

:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: carbonhoots]
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Interesting Article...but I'm sad to say that it's not really news to me. Ever since 9/11 I have had a sour taste in my mouth from Bush and Rumsfield and co. Rumsfield has been lurking around in the shadows for a long time...and it seems like in the last 2 years he is not even trying to hide his agenda anymore. I'm sure that Bush is too much of an idiot to be the mastermind behind anything, he is little more than a puppet for Rumsfield and his old guard cronies...


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: carbonhoots]
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This isn't news, the U.S. was creating enemies and influencing potential terrorists long before 9/11. In 1984 Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny published "Endless Enemies," which was subtitled "How America's Worldwide Interventions Destroy Democracy and Free Enterprise and Defeat Our Own Best Interests." More recently, one can also read the grievences explicitly stated by Osama Bin Laden. Sadly, too many people have bought into the rationalization/propaganda that the terrorists are jealous of our freedoms.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

Edited by Evolving (11/04/02 10:49 AM)

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: carbonhoots]
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"...but us on the outside wonder what would happen if someone like Hitler rose to the top there. The potential for destruction keeps a lot of people a bit nervous. "

That is why we have democracy. People dont just rise to the top here. Yes, some have more power than others but even if hITLER (dont cap that asshole's name) was president he would not have the same form of power he had in Germany.

When Bush decides somthing he knows he has half the population behind him. That is why 2/3 of congress voted to give Bush power. 2/3 is very very powerful.


Oh and that article is stupid. The reason Rumsfield said that there would likely be more terrorist activity is so that all you Liberals out there wouldn't start to think that the war on terrorism is any where near being over. He was making a point to show that the threat of terrorism is just as strong as it was a year ago in August. He wants america to remember there are still alot of bad people out there we need to go out and kill them b4 they kill us first. Dont think that if we stoped our military activity the Al-Queda would stop there's it doesn't work like that. They wont be happy until our country is as fucked up as there's is.

GO FUCKING VOTE TOMORRO!!!!

Edited by ehud (11/04/02 04:26 PM)

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: ehud]
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In reply to:
That is why we have democracy.



Sorry to correct you but the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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"Sorry to correct you but the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy. "

Here we go again. THE UNITED STATES' POLITICAL SYSTEM IS A FORM OF DEMOCRACY.

It's efficacy as a democratic system may be under question, but by the most basic of definitions, our system IS based on principles of democracy.


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: hongomon]
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it's more of a representative republic...but a form of mob rule..er..democracy nontheless....


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Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: ehud]
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"He wants america to remember there are still alot of bad people out there we need to go out and kill them b4 they kill us first."

Making the world a better place, eh?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: 

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Innvertigo]
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Yes. Or a constitutional republic. An improvement on mob rule, no doubt about that.

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: hongomon]
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splitting hairs time: A constitutionaly limited republic.....wouldn't that be great if it was run like one?


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America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Innvertigo]
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It is not splitting hairs at all. The form of government of the United States of America is in fact a constitutionally limited republic, albeit one in which the agents of the people (President, senate, house of representatives) are elected through a democratically-based voting process.

The PROCESS of selecting those agents is a democratic one. However, legislation is enacted not through referenda, but through a voting procedure restricted to those elected agents rather than the populace as a whole.

I certainly agree it would be an improvement if those elected representatives would remember the constitutionally limited part.

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Innvertigo]
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Constitutionaly limited republic...that works for me.

It seems unlikely that these guys are going to remember on their own--what sort of reminders do you guys think may have potential?

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: hongomon]
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all libby vs. conservative aside i think if people actually:
1. knew the constitution (mainly the bill of rights)(this includes the electoral college as well)
2. asks and demand that the politicians they elect use it to guide them through their term.

the first time they slip, then we smack them on the hand by withholding the almighty dollar....second offense no re-election or better yet, impeachment. (this would never be the case because there are too many that don't want to be bothered with politics and vote for either "D" or "R". (this has a better chance of happening locally the nationally, unfortunatly)


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America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: hongomon]
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we elect people into power with a democracy. which helps prevent bad people from gaining power without the backing of the american public.
If that doesn't work then you had better hold onto your guns. The second Amendment is another reason it would be hard for a person like hitler to become powerful in this country.

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: ehud]
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In reply to:
The second Amendment is another reason it would be hard for a person like hitler to become powerful in this country.


You better watch it, Alex is going to come after you with with guns a blazin' (don't worry, he shoots blanks). Some people are naive enough to think that words and wishes are all we need to keep the power hungry in check.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: ehud]
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The second Amendment is another reason it would be hard for a person like hitler to become powerful in this country.

Well according to every court in the land the second amendment doesn't give individuals the right to own guns.

But apart from that, why would big business need a system of government like Hitler? They can get their own way perfectly well enough using democrat or republican puppets.


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Evolving]
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don't worry, he shoots blanks

Nice one evolving  :laugh:


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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Xlea321]
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"Well according to every court in the land the second amendment doesn't give individuals the right to own guns."

It's not about owning guns dude, it is about maintaining a militia to protect yourself. Guns are just needed to maintain this militia. America needs a way to defend itself against it's own government if needed. That is why we have the second amendment.

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: ehud]
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In reply to:
America needs a way to defend itself against it's own government if needed. That is why we have the second amendment.


There you go, making sense again.

It baffles me that all of the hate and blame America first crowd are also the ones that want to deny the American people the final means to stop an out of control government. They complain about the great Satan, but they would deny the necessary tools to the people who are most able to reign it in.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Evolving]
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five shrooms to you Bro! :cool:

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Xlea321]
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Well Albie... still spewing that load of crap I see. Not that I expected otherwise.

Here's a story on the 5th circuit court of appeals... a FEDERAL court I might add. And a decision which has not been overturned.

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Legal scholars debate landmark Second Ammendment ruling in Texas

By CHRIS NEWTON
Associated Press

LUBBOCK (AP) ? A judge?s landmark ruling that the Second Amendment gives individuals, and not just organized militias, the right to bear arms has legal scholars sparring about the constitutionality of gun-control laws.

Earlier this year, gun-control opponents inundated U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings with scholarly treatises, encouraging him to overturn an arcane law that prohibits someone from owning a gun while under a restraining order.

In response, 52 legal scholars who support gun control filed an amicus brief last week denouncing Cummings? interpretation of the Second Amendment.

?That decision and the opinion were a major shot across the bow,? said Bruce Hay, a Harvard University law professor who signed the brief. ?For the most part, federal courts have taken a hands-off approach to federal statutes regulating use of guns.

?This is the first decision to say the Second Amendment prohibits Congress from imposing special laws concerning gun ownership. That is why his decision is so worrisome.?

The debate began unfolding last year after Timothy Joe Emerson of San Angelo was arrested and charged with violating a restraining order for allegedly brandishing a handgun in front of his wife and her daughter.

Defense attorneys argued that any law infringing on Emerson?s right to own guns was unconstitutional.

Cummings agreed, ruling in April that the right to bear arms is a protected individual right ? and not just a right belonging to an organized militia, as federal prosecutors had argued.

Prosecutors are appealing to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but could not comment because of the judge?s gag order.

Meanwhile, scholars say the decision sets the stage for the challenge of almost any law infringing on a citizen?s right to possess a gun.

And they say the expected appellate battle is crucial for both sides.

?Growing public sentiment for a final decision on the issue is high because of school shootings and office shootings,? said David Yassky, a Brooklyn Law School professor who wrote the brief. ?The time is right for a serious decision to be made.?

The brief criticizes Cummings for misinterpreting the Second Amendment, which Yassky writes was meant to ?preserve organized, state-based militias,? and not intended to ?empower individuals or small groups of disaffected citizens to take up arms against the established order.?

Yassky said Cummings? opinion reinforces the misconception that most legal scholars believe gun-control laws are illegal.

?The vast majority argue that the Second Amendment was intended to protect states? militia from the new central government created by the Constitution,? he said.

But Scott Powe, a constitutional law professor at the University of Texas whom Cummings cited in his ruling, denounced Yassky?s brief, charging that only three of the co-signers were ?serious? constitutional law scholars.

?The brief is seeking to suck the meaning out of the words ?the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,?? Powe said. ?There are all sorts of things you could add or take away from that if you wanted to, but the meaning is clear. It couldn?t be more clear.?

Advocacy groups also have taken a keen interest in the case.

Jim Manown, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said most Americans support the ?traditional understanding? of the Second Amendment as the individual?s right to bear arms.

?The road to the Supreme Court is a long one, but the interest this has generated and the fact that it is being appealed will only mean the importance of this case will be heightened,? Manown said.

Nancy Hwa, a spokeswoman for the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, said Yassky?s brief likely will be crucial in any debate the reaches the Supreme Court.

?We view Cummings? ruling as a renegade decision that the gun lobby is trying to hide behind,? Hwa said. ?But this time, the gun lobby won?t be able to hide. Scholars are stepping forward to make sure the reality of the Second Amendment is clear.?

One expert who does not fit snugly into either camp is Laurence Tribe, a noted liberal Harvard law professor who believes in the individual right to bear arms.

Tribe?s recently published text, American Constitutional Law, concludes that the Second Amendment assures that ?the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.?

His position has provoked gun-control advocates and he says he has received ?an avalanche of angry mail from apparent liberals.?

But he said he also does not agree with Cummings? ruling.

?Judge Cummings went too far with his decision, saying that Congress cannot define categories of people to whom it would be dangerous to allow to bear arms,? he said. ?The Second Amendment provides individual right, but not an unbounded right.?
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And as I've posted before.... the Miller case you're so fond of only ruled on whether a sawed off shotgun was covered by the second ammendment, which they decided was not because a sawed off shotgun, in the courts opinion at the time, had no military value. They most definately did not rule on whether the second ammendment was an individual right or not. Several other court decisions have ruled that the word people in ammendments means it is an individual right.

I feel bad that you keep lying and saying no court in the land has ruled on the second ammendment. It is a lie and as such you should quit as it makes you look ever more foolish each time you say it.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Evolving]
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Back on topic...this piece is an editorial. And it uses as its source some letter that was given to Rumsfield that found itsway into the LA Times?

It's very vague.

I'd like to know more about the original article.


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"America: Fuck yeah!" -- Alexthegreat

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”  -- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.

The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. --Salena Zeto (9/23/16)

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Evolving]
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In reply to:
(don't worry, he shoots blanks)


I certainly hope so, it would be sad indeed if his sperm is viable and he passed on those defective genes to another generation.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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luvvie, I am not your father. There is no need to be so bitter.

:grin:



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Re: Rumsfeld to provoke terrorist attacks [Re: Xlea321]
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Bitter? Naw, just grateful that you're not. For then I'd be as foolish as you.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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